Stay with me
Hold me
Just be with me
Everything else has been torn away
An essential part of me is gone
I am a new, different person, a stranger to myself
The torment is grinding me into dust
My soul cries out its grief, its howl fills me until I hear nothing else
Then you come to me and I am no longer so cold, so alone
When you hold me, I can hide from everything else
From unbearable loss, from terrible knowledge, from fear that I will lose you, too
When all else is gone, you are the one thing in my life that is safe and strong
You are the one place I can hold on to that hasn't changed
In the raging waters that threaten to drown me, you stand firm,
An anchor that keeps me from being swept away
Please don't ever leave me
I love you, my heart
The pain that engulfs me would be so much worse if I lost you, too.
